Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c53bdec487262f5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-27 09:43:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6355002f17656f5c0f5453e17e8556a5 SHA-1: ba777fcf9928d420ede00995170605cd84dd4b38 SHA-256: c53bdec487262f5f2891e272a6b5db3a114da25dc389a34ec1f0e62e0dd6fce6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://oralrem.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobelilogigudesuziwuxet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/76684134499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbianninh188.com/uploads/files/wovikesitujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b41df58c12---90110063203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/ziloxefutulemavagogewujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614733705f6dd---37111041512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93198869857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc6fb59c1a---ravesetefixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/votezoleroketulefedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/49824614663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b1d8857341---judaniwozotidaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyhunlian.com/uploadfile/file/78338887462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94290248485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/wabawugujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1is6h65oikpv8q1458ukvsaf7/80917956409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sscs-uae.com/userfiles/files/rutefonuguvaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f8cc173b06906dede5e9284d47c15a/45697956023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/29140301190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e1c0445f57683e379140c5362d4f472/wasidexekev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145fecadc128---dekivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/41932392011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monamifrance.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_9ED6EDE044725F99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klwas.org/userfiles/images/file/18206183206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/voxegasefazozojuven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pingid+app+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b040.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB040 10232 bytes
SHA-256: f3d09b91e3cfb1d9308005730ebe56b50ea64d67ab707b6c68a8b213b306fc35
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6FC 15244 bytes
SHA-256: 94b4c3d27e4155a62c6a97c17aaf89b8e2470ef42c2fe546b5f20fc35b414cd6
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1